Low Power Mode v1.1
"Later girls!" shouted Sweetie Belle as she waved a forehoof in goodbye to her two best friends.
"See ya tomorrow, Sweetie Belle!" Scootaloo said as she flapped her wings and took off in the direction of her aunts house.
Applebloom smiled, tiredness evident in her eyes and said, "Woah, nelly. Ah'd say Ah'd see ya girls bright an early Sunday morning, but after today, Ah'm plum tuckered out. Ah'm sleepin' in tomorrow."
Sweetie Belle looked up at the sky, then down at the horizon. Celestia's Sun was almost fully set, casting an orange glow throughout the sky.
"Wow. We've been Crusading extra late today," Sweetie Belle remarked.
Applebloom pouted, "Yeah, and we still got nuttin'!"
Sweetie Bell shrugged and said, "Well, maybe it means we should try Crusading smarter, not harder?"
Applebloom appeared to think it over for a moment, then replied, "Nah."
Sweetie Belle just rolled her eyes.
"Anyways, see ya tomorrow, Sweetie Belle!" Applebloom said before galloping off.
Sweetie Belle watched her friend leave, and then leisurely strolled in the direction of Carousel Boutique. As she walked, the unicorn filly thought to herself, "Wow, we really did Crusade for a while. It's been exactly 3 hours 16 minutes and 39 seconds since we met back up after dinner. Well, they had dinner, I was drawing with those crayons Rarity gave me. I still had enough charge from yesterday. I can't believe all my RAM was so focused on Crusading ideas that I didn't remember to plug in before going into sleep mode last night. Whatever though. I'm totally fine. Though it's kinda weird that I didn't even get at least a 30% warning. I know my battery's pretty good, but still, I can't believe I still have-."
Sweetie suddenly ground to a halt as a sudden memory, and horrified realization, struck her hard and stopped her cold. She recalled in perfect detail the moment she'd decided to just disable her low battery alerts after a 30% warning flashed before her eyes the other day, causing her to trip and fall just as she was about to kick the ball and score the winning goal. The disappointment of her friends and the laughter of Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon drove her to make that choice, but now she was deeply regretting it.
"Okay, okay, I'm sure it's fine," Sweetie Belle said nervously, forcing herself to smile even as her eyes twitched and darted around, "I'm positive I've got plenty of power left."
>Access Settings
>Alerts and Alarms
>Low Battery Alert Settings
>30% Alert- Disabled
20% Alert- Disabled
10% Alert- Disabled
5% Alert- Disabled
4% Alert- Disabled
3% Alert- Disabled
2% Alert- Disabled
1% Alert- Disabled
"Ugh! Why did I disable ALL of them for!?" Sweetie Belle groaned.
>30% Alert- Enabled
20% Alert- Enabled
10% Alert- Enabled
5% Alert- Enabled
4% Alert- Enabled
3% Alert- Enabled
2% Alert- Enabled
1% Alert- Enabled
Sweetie Belle huffed and said, "That's so annoying. I wish there was just an 'All OFF' and 'All ON' toggle or some-."
Low Battery
10% battery remaining.
Sweetie Belle's jaw dropped as she stared at the message that flashed before her eyes. "What!?" she squeaked out, "Oh, no-no-no-no, this can't be happening! I - I- I - !?"
Sweetie Belle immediately took off running back into town as fast as her legs could carry her. She jumped over rocks, hopped over potholes, and even weaved in and out and around the occasional pony that was out enjoying what little Ponyville offered in the realm of nightlife.
Eventually, she did make it back to the Carousel Boutique, and ended up headbutting the door right open, and then swiftly kicking it closed.
Low Battery
5% battery remaining.
"I spent 5% just running here?!" Sweetie Belle exclaimed in disbelief, then looked about the darkened boutique with her night vision without thinking. Then, the light level suddenly seemed to drop dramatically, making it too dark to see.
Low Power Mode
Enhanced Vision, Night Vision, and Zoom Vision are disable to conserve power.
"Of course," Sweetie Belle moaned as she stumbled about in the dark in search for the light switch.
"I'd probably ask Rarity for help at this point, but since I've been so responsible lately, she trusted me to stay here alone and feed Opal while she visits her Boutique in Canterlot! She won't be back until tomorrow at noon! Is this my reward for being responsible!? And Applebloom thought her first time was bad!" Sweetie Belle lamented as she felt around on the wall with her forehooves.
Low Battery
4% battery remaining.
Finally, she found the lightswitch and the Boutique was fully illuminated. Sighing with relief, Sweetie Bell turned to her left side and focused on a spot on her body.
>Open Charger Port
>Let Out Charger Cable
Normally disguised by her white fur, a small door opened up on Sweetie Belle's side, and out of the door came out a long cable with a two pronged plug on the end of it. Once the cable was fully out, coming to a length equal to Sweetie Belle from tail to horn tip, the filly smiled and powered up her horn and grabbed the plug in a light green aura, levitating it up to eye level.
Low Battery
3% battery remaining.
Her horn then promptly blinked out, and the plug fell unceremoniously to the floor.
Low Power Mode
TK Capabilities and Magic System are disabled to conserve power.
"OH, COME ON!" Sweetie Belle shouted, then she quickly knelt down and grabbed the cord in her mouth. She frantically looked around like a lost puppy for an agonizingly long, panic stricken moment, then she spotted an electrical wall outlet on the wall directly opposite to where she was standing. Relief flooded through her, and she quickly started to run towards the outlet.
Low Battery
2% battery remaining.
All four of Sweetie Belle's legs suddenly went limp, and she fell forward and flat on her stomach like ragdoll.
Low Power Mode
Limb Movement and Organic Movement Mimicry System are disabled to conserve power.
"No. . ." Sweetie Belle muttered through the cord in her mouth. As embarrassing as this was, fear of humiliation was the least of her worries. Losing power now would mean none of today's experiences would be saved. Everything she had recorded in her short term RAM would poof out of existence, instead of being compressed and transferred into her permanent long term hard drive. Not only would be a wasted day for her, but yet another opportunity for others to look at her with suspicion. Any possibility of her secret getting out had to taken very seriously, and not remembering an entire day the next morning was not something she could afford.
As Sweetie Belle lay flat on her belly, she could see the outlet on the wall right in front of her. It was only a few steps away from her, so close yet so far.
WARNING. SHORT TERM MEMORY NOT SAVED TO HARD DRIVE. 11 HOURS AND 18 MINUTES WORTH OF RAM DATA WILL BE LOST. TO PREVENT MEMORY LOSS, PLUG IN BATTERY IMMEDIATELY.
"Nonononono, okay, okay, I can still make it. It's right there!" Sweetie Belle thought frantically, and she spat the charging cord so that that fell onto her right forehoof.
>Power Settings
>Rerouting Power
>Reroute to-
-Limb Movement
-Sight
>Rerouting all remaining power to Limb Movement and Sight.
It suddenly felt to Sweetie Belle as if her entire body had gone numb, including her nose, tongue, and throat. Her sense of hearing also vanished with all the grace of a speaker being unplugged.
Low Power Mode
Speech and Vocalization System, Hearing, Smell, Touch, and Taste are disabled to conserve power.
"This feels awful! I hate not being able to touch anything!" Sweetie Belle thought as she fought the urge to freak out.
WARNING. Due to critically low power levels, Limb Movement will be limited and delayed; Sight will be basic and unenhanced.
"Don't care, just let me focus!" Sweetie Belle hissed mentally as she forced her hind legs to move. With great effort on her part, she lifted her hind legs up enough so that her back hooves were flat on the floor. She then pushed down with them as hard as she could as she walked her forward, scooting herself across the floor and straight towards the electrical outlet. As she slid ever closer to the outlet, she raised her right forehoof slightly, and gave it a slight flick and twist so that the charger cable hanging across it swung and wrapped around the hoof, coming to a stop on the top of the foreleg.
Low Battery
1% battery remaining.
"Oh my gosh! No-no! Please, no! I had a good day today! I don't wanna forget!" Sweetie Belle thought as she shakily raised her right forehoof towards the outlet.
WARNING. SHORT TERM MEMORY NOT SAVED TO HARD DRIVE. 11 HOURS AND 19 MINUTES WORTH OF RAM DATA WILL BE LOST. TO PREVENT MEMORY LOSS, PLUG IN BATTERY IMMEDIATELY.
"I know! I know! I'm trying! I'm-."
Click.
"YES!"
If Sweetie Belle's Organic Movement Mimicry System had been operating at the time, she would've let out a huge sigh of relief as her chest heaved up and down as she stared at the end of the charging cable, now securely plugged into the outlet.
"Oh, thank Celestia and Luna and Twilight and Cadence and even Discord!" Sweetie Belle thought with immense euphoric relief as she "felt" the percentage of her battery level slowly increase.
Speech and Vocalization System enabled.
Hearing, Smell, Touch, and Taste enabled. All Senses set to base level.
Sweetie Belle smiled as she was able to feel the floor under her belly again. "Whew. What a nightmare. Nothing worse than losing your touch," Sweetie Belle quipped.
Low Power Mode
Limb Movement, Organic Movement Mimicry System, TK Capabilities, and Magic System are disabled to conserve power.
Sweetie Belle nodded mentally and remarked, "Yeah, yeah. I know. I don't need them now. I'm okay with just lying here and waiting."
"Meow."
Sweetie Belle's attention was caught by the sound, and she managed to move her eyes to one side to see Opalescence stealthily moving towards her. The cat approached the fallen filly, tilting her head at Sweetie Belle in curiosity.
"Go away, Opal," Sweetie Belle said grumpily.
Opal frowned at this, clearly insulted by the command. The cat proceeded to ignore the order and began licking her forepaw to clean herself.
"Ugggh!" Sweetie Belle groaned, not at all eager to be the captive audience of Opal taking a bath.
Opal paused in her grooming to cut her eyes at the limp filly, then the cat's eyes drifted over to the charging cable plugged into the wall. Opal then put her paw back down and walked over towards the plug in the wall.
"No, Opal. Don't touch that!" Sweetie Belle hissed.
Opal paused and turned to Sweetie Belle, and the filly could've sworn she saw the cat smirk at her.
"Don't even think about it," Sweetie Belle said as she glared at the cat as hard she could.
Opal ignored the warning and began to almost playfully bat at the plug with her paws.
"Stop!" Sweetie Belle said desperately, her glare becoming a pleading look.
Opal slowly turned her head towards Sweetie Belle as she rested a paw right on the plug.
"Please?" Sweetie Belle whispered.
All it took was a swipe of her paw to unplug the charger cable.
"WHY YOU-!?" Sweetie Belle shouted.
Opal meowed loudly before turning around and walking away with a swaggering step and a swing of her tail.
>Power Settings
>Rerouting Power
>Reroute to-
-Limb Movement
-Sight
-TK Capabilities
>Rerouting all remaining power to Limb Movement, Sight, and TK Capabilities.
Opal heard the sound of hooves stomping hard on the floor, and turned just in time to see the filly that was limp as a ragdoll a moment ago flying towards her with outstretched forelegs. Opal hissed as she just narrowed avoided Sweetie Belle's pounce. The cat ran towards the kitchen with the furious filly in hot pursuit.
Sweetie Belle was too angry to care about anything as she lit up her horn and snatched up mugs and plates in her green aura, then hurled them in Opal's general direction. Opal yowled as a dish shot over her back like a frisbee as she ran across the kitchen counter. She then jumped back down onto the floor and made a quick dash underneath Sweetie Belle's legs. Sweetie Bell attempted a sharp turn, which didn't go so well for her due to the lack of grip her hooves had on the kitchen floor, and the long charge cable hanging off of her which tripped her up slightly.
With a fierce growl, Sweetie Belle got back up and ran out of the kitchen just in time to see Opal fleeing up the stairs. Sweetie Belle followed and chased Opal right into the spare room the filly always stayed in whenever her parents left her with Rarity.
Once inside, Sweetie Belle kicked the door closed, smiling wickedly as she knew now that Opal was trapped. Sure enough, the cat was backed up against the wall beside the bed, her back arched and her fur standing up on end.
Sweetie Belle gave an evil chuckle as she stalked towards her foe, he horn glowing as she levitated a large pitcher of water over to her. Opal's eyes widened at the sight of the pitcher, and she closed her eyes and circle up into a ball as she waited for the inevitable.
Thud! Splash!
Opal opened her eyes and uncurled herself at the loud noise. The cat saw that Sweetie Bell had dropped the pitched of water, which now lay empty on the now damp floor. Also, Sweetie Bell herself had fallen on her side and lay completely limp and unmoving.
Opal blinked and stared at the filly for a moment, then smirked and hissed at her before walking right past her towards the door. It wasn't until Opal had reached the door that she realized that it was closed, and it wasn't until after she'd scratched at it a few times that she realized that she had no way of opening it. Opal huffed and walked back over to the fallen filly. The cat looked at Sweetie Belle for a moment, then huffed again and meowed loudly into the filly's ear. When that did nothing, Opal began pawing impatiently at Sweetie Belle's face.
After getting no response from the filly, Opal then sat quietly and took a closer look at Sweetie Belle. The cat's frown deepened, and slowly but surely, the beginnings of feeling of actual concern began to take shape.
"WARNING! BATTERY LEVEL CRITICAL! RAM DATA LOSS IMMINENT! 11 HOURS AND 19 MINUTES WORTH OF RAM DATA WILL BE LOST! PLUG IN CHARGER CABLE INTO COMPATIBLE ELECTRICAL OUTLET IMMEDIATELY!"
Opal jumped back at the sound of the serious sounding unfamiliar voice coming from the filly. Once she got over her initial surprise, Opal's seeds of actual concern finally sprouted as feeding times in the recent past came to mind. The cat looked over at the charging cable still hanging out of Sweetie Belle, and then over at the electrical outlet in the wall she'd been cornered against mere moments ago.
With an annoyed huff, Opal approached the cable and picked it up with her mouth. Rearing up onto her hind legs and using her forepaws to the best of her ability, Opal managed to insert the plug into the electrical outlet. After this, Opal leapt up onto the bed, kneaded the blankets with her claws, and then curled up for a much needed nap.
". . . . . . Thank you, Opal."
The End
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What kind of hardisk/solid state drive Sweetie Bot used to preserve her memory. It shouldn't gone just because you out of power like that!
Yes! A Sweetie Bot story! Thank you. I always found the idea of Sweetie Bot intriguing. Thrackerzod as well, for that matter. Well, this story was satisfyingly down to the wire, I'm glad Opal realised she needed Sweetie alive to open the door. Cats are practical that way, lol.
I think you did an excelent job. It was right for her to chase opal. Next story can you add a bot with weapons?
This was really cute!!
Okay, did enjoy most of this adventure.
though a few situsations just got too uch ..
Just have to ask, why no precautions to deal with this was ever installed in the house?
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No, click on the image for the source.
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Uh, magic.
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This never happened before. Plus, Rarity would never have dreamed that her previous Opal would do something like that.
She should get a wireless charging pad. They're less energy efficient, but are largely cat-proof.
this is a good little short.
It's a rather odd design, to have a power supply limited by only several days, with a permanent memory loss in case of an outage. A major weak point.
Huh.
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Probably a RAM (random access memory) as RAMs lose their stored data the moment electrical power is lost.
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Its one of the classic Sweetie Bot images.
Aww. Saw cover image and thought Thunder struck had updated after 5 years. Still Woo for a Sweetie Bot story.
There are at least one or two other stories that I can think of that got completed. Unless we hear otherwise, I'm going to say it's safe to assume that SBProject lost momentum and petered out
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I just looked at their Twitter and the latest video was from May 18 of this year, so I take back my second remark (a little bit anyway). I sent a friendly tweet, maybe I'll get a response so we can know better what's up.
"My batteries are low and it's getting dark."
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The alternative is an actual reactor that might not even fit into a full grown mare let alone a filly. Still two solid days (likely battery saving mode during 'sleep') greatly out paces my devices by a half day or more. I think it is actually pretty good when my devices don't last more than a few hours when gaming heavily and Sweetie is using magic.
my concern is the memory loss as it is unstated as to just how much. My old game boy color pokemon cartridges had batteries to keep them saving (watch batteries that last a decade) but they do run out meaning that any gaming on them requires me to do it in one playthrough. My DS saves seem to be more robust as 12 years or so later I still have data saved. It does make me wonder what kind of memory system is in use.
Such a sad concept, I can't imagine why it isn't tagged 'tragedy'.
Fun fun fun.
Also, Achievement Unlocked: this is exactly 2000th MLP fanfic which I have finished reading.
Hmm The percentage are REALLY REALLY off Sweetie definitely needs to run a recalibration of the power meter. ^^;;;
On top of that a backup battery just to keep the memory going should be a given.
One of the reasons I was so late to jump on the Smart Phone bandwagon, was the battery actually.
I sometimes shock
young whippersnapperspeople by saying my old phone typically had a lifespan of 1-2 WEEKS. And that was with a nickel-cadmium battery. That was one of the last 'Dumb Phones' (not counting pensioner throwbacks, but mainstream models) that was set up to call, text and MAYBE play Snake or have a calculator, though.So kinda shocked that Sweetie doesn't have some sort of that-a-way backup system just to keep her mind going in power savings mode, if the alternative is, well, her version of brain-damage.
Guess there's only so much room, or something? Oh well, neat story. Just a bit of tech that's amused me for years now.
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FYI, you can actually change those batteries in the Game-Boy and Advance carts, though it requires some soldering.
Not for everybody, of course, but it's neat for game preservation's sake that it's such a—relatively—cheap and easy fix.
Oh, and we'll probably start hearing about N64 games needing that same technique in a few years, because they also used a small battery. Think those have been somewhat more long-lasting due to relatively more energy efficient tech, though, so not sure how much longer they'll last without maintenance like the above.
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The DS is using Flash memory, which is the same kind of memory that's used in USB thumbdrives, SD Cards, SSDs (Solid-State Drives), and so on. That type of memory is what we hardware-engineering types call "non-volatile", meaning it doesn't require continuous power to retain its information, so there's no need for a battery to sustain them when the DS is turned off or the cartridge is unplugged.
The older Gameboy cartridges use a low-power RAM chip, which is "volatile" memory that only remembers its information as long as it has power, hence the need for the battery inside the cartridge if it's a game that needs to "remember" the game's state when the GB is turned off or the cartridge is unplugged.
And before you ask:
The reason they didn't use Flash memory in those older units was that Flash memory was still in its infancy when the Gameboy came out -- Toshiba had only just brought the first-generation Flash chips to market a year or so earlier -- so it was still too expensive a technology for a consumer product, especially one aimed at kids. By the time the DS came around, Flash memory was cheaply and widely available from multiple vendors, and much more reliable, so they went with that instead.
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I was actually refering to what Sweetie was using. that is definitely my bad.
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I imagine she'd use standard DRAM for immediate processing and short-term memory, and a large-capacity flash SSD for long-term storage. The thing about Flash is that it has a limited "write endurance"; for various highly-complicated and technical laws-of-physics reasons, each time you write to a flash cell, it "degrades" slightly, and will eventually lose its ability to retain data reliably, so it really can't be used in place of RAM for primary processing; the constant read/write/read/write cycles, hundreds or thousands of times a second, would wear it out within weeks, or days. The way your laptop preserves its state when it powers down is, essentially, to store a mirror of whatever's currently in RAM to a special memory-dump file on the hard drive or SSD, then reload it back into memory when it starts up again. (Bit more complicated than that in reality, but that's the gist of it.)
It does seem odd that SweetieBot's OS wouldn't have a "suspend" or "hibernate" function like that, to prevent memory loss when her battery drops too low -- but maybe she managed to accidentally circumvent or disable that function when she was fiddling with her own system settings to deactivate the low-battery warnings. Probably wasn't a good idea for her creator to give sudo privileges to a Cutie Mark Crusader.
Not gonna lie, a story in which one of the characters from G5 finds Sweetie Bot rusted, corroded, but in hibernation mode somewhere could prove quite interesting. Just a cool thought I had.
DisQord gave Sweetie Bot a positronic matrix from his OTHER universe.
Sweetie needs to start carrying a backup power bank, or two, for situations like this.
🤖
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Exhalation
It is entirely possible that she entirely uses active memory, with no actual storage space. Poor design, much like our biological brains admittedly, but quite feasible.
I Enjoyed this thanks a bunch for making it !!
Maybe if you just would have walked slowly you would have more power left.
How about losing everything like you just did?
Next time consider shutting down unnecessary systems before things get this critical.
Good story!
I enjoyed reading it.
Also if you like SweetieBot stories have a look at this one:
- MLP: FiM
- Comedy
- Slice of Life
Scootaloo has a secret. So do Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle. What happens when the truth comes out?Sweetie Belle is holding a secret, but she isn't the only one...
Nice! First chapter has a similar feel, but different delivery compared to
- MLP: FiM
- Comedy
- Slice of Life
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No warnings mentioned?
oh, and how she would know better?
No permanent memory? Really?
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Admittedly would be faster
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I love seeing this thoughtful discussion here! If it helps, i was running with the idea that over the course of a day, all of Sweetie Belle's experiences are recorded in short term RAM, and then the important parts are then moved into her main harddrive for long term memory storage during her sleep mode. If she looses all power, her RAM gets wiped, but her main harddrive is left untouched thanks to its own separate battery. This is to more closely resemble an organic pony's memory, RAM is short term, the main harddrive is long term. Hitting 0% would result in the last 8 or 10 hours worth of data being lost. (Like Dory's short term memory loss) Not a disaster but still pretty bad a frightning to a little filly. Also, this could possible damage or corrupt her RAM, which could be serious. (Like Dory's short term memory loss)
I might add in some thoughts/dialogue/warnings to this effect to the story to make it a little more clear what's at stake.
Nice updates with the change. I liked Both but yes this version is better. Great work
There are a couple more examples of Sweetie Bot stories that are finished (their sequels are still in the works, but the original stories are finished). They aren't exclusively about Sweetie Bot, but rather the entire CMCs. But I consider them Sweetie Bot stories nonetheless. The first is Undead Robot Bug Crusaders by Banjo64, and the other is Three Wishes: The Cutie Mark Crusaders Before They Changed The World by Xepher.
Three Wishes has a unique premise in my opinion. The CMCs exist because their big sisters (well, Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy) made wishes. After AJ's parents died, she wished for... I forget the specifics. But a scarecrow came to life and became Apple Bloom. Rarity's grandfather had made her a clockwork pony to check under the bed and in the closet at night. After he died, Rarity wished to have someone that she can take care of in the way that her grandfather took care of her. And thus, the clockwork pony came to life to become Sweetie Belle. Fluttershy was in trouble at school for missing so much school when in actuality, she was just so soft-spoken that when attendance was called, the teacher never heard her voice. Later that day while playing in a cloudbox (a pegasus version of a sandbox), she made a cloud pony and wished that she had someone who understood her, including not being good at flying. Just after that, she heard a couple nearby who were upset because they couldn't have a child. So her wish then became one for them, and that they could have a child. And thus, the cloud pony came to life and became Scootaloo, who was found by the couple.
That may sound like I gave a lot away, but that's an early reveal in the story. There is so much more to the story than just that.
Undead Robot Bug Crusaders is again, another interesting premise, though not as original as Three Wishes. "Undead" refers to Apple Bloom, who, while traveling to Zecora's with Twilight, had strayed from the path and got lost, found a village, and cursed her to become a Ghoul. The curse was under control so that it wouldn't spread, but she was still cursed. The only place that can show them how to reverse the curse was in that village, which vanished and won't return for over 100 years. Twilight and AJ know of the curse, and Twilight enchanted her bows to hide her... Ghoul form. "Robot" refers to Sweetie Belle, who's... a robot of course. I won't explain much about that, because a big chunk of the story has to do with the mystery of how and why Sweetie Belle is a robot. She and Rarity learn about it during an accident in the kitchen. While using a knife, Sweetie falls off the stool, landing on the floor, and the knife flying blade first into her stomach. While trying to get the knife out, she ended up pulling open a hatch, revealing her inner robotic components. And Pinkie Pie also knows this secret because... well... she's Pinkie Pie. "Bug" refers to Scootaloo, who's a Changeling. Not much to say about that. She's just always been a Changeling and was just afraid to reveal herself, especially after Chrysalis's attack at the Royal Wedding. It's fun experiencing her POV and listening to the hivemind. Her siblings are a riot if I'm to be honest. And then there's the Queen of the hive and Scootaloo's mother, Blue Monarch. I'll opt not to give it away, but wait until you learn what Scootaloo's birth name is. There's this joke about their mother not being good at naming. In the sequel, it mentions how Chrysalis was insane. As in, when she went to trial and was sentenced, instead of going to prison, she was sent to an insane asylum with a straight jacket and in a padded room. My favorite part of that chapter was when she was monologuing, one person says, "She does know that we can hear her, right?" and the other says "I don't even know if she realizes she's speaking out loud." Those who know about Scootaloo's secret are Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. Fluttershy because she actually help Blue Monarch to find that location for her hive, and seeing Rainbow Dash is the reason Scootaloo chose a Pegasus form in the first place. Again, most of that was revealed at the beginning of the story, so I'm not giving away much.
P.S. Sorry for the wall of text.
I'm finally going to get around to audiobooking this, it's a good opportunity for some original ideas on how to edit the audio. I think I can assume that Sweetie Belle's voice is disguised as normal in this story and that I think the only robot sounding parts will be the alerts. This will be an interesting new concept and I look forward to making it sound cool, about to bring out the microphone and record.
If you see this and have any suggestions before I begin editing let me know. I hope what I have in mind is the way you intended for it to sound like in your head.
The Sweetie Bot Project
You're welcome.
This is why SMART robot designers install a biomass conversion unit! Or a Mr. Fusion...
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Maann, I was thinking the same thing !
I still upvoted this story though